YouTube MCP Server Enhanced

Item: YouTube MCP Server Enhanced
Rating: 64
Author: M8ven

Enables AI language models to interact with YouTube content through the YouTube Data API, including retrieving video details, transcripts, channel information, playlists, and searching videos with enhanced responses that include direct URLs.

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// key findings

⚠️

Known vulnerabilities in dependencies: 2 high

Affects packages this MCP installs at runtime. Upgrade or remove the affected dependency.

✅

14 tools verified — handlers match their declared behaviour

10 read-only tools verified — handlers contain no write/delete/exec

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 2 credentials: YOUTUBE_API_KEY, YOUTUBE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// known CVEs in dependencies2 high

Disclosed vulnerabilities in this server's declared npm dependencies (via OSV). Whether each is reachable depends on the installed versions.

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.1.1GHSA-8r9q-7v3j-jr4g

Anthropic's MCP TypeScript SDK has a ReDoS vulnerability

high@modelcontextprotocol/sdk@1.1.1GHSA-w48q-cv73-mx4w

Model Context Protocol (MCP) TypeScript SDK does not enable DNS rebinding protection by default

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// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretYOUTUBE_API_KEY— "": "your_youtube_api_key_here"

configYOUTUBE_OAUTH_CLIENT_ID

🔐 secretYOUTUBE_OAUTH_CLIENT_SECRET

configYOUTUBE_TRANSCRIPT_LANG— Default language for transcripts (optional, defaults to 'en')

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commit: d053efccbfb6e059ae5d899af006891d95951aa6

code hash: a749284328a1cf7661066869ba0a0e6a1ff631d1b7b06014da0a023b769c6815

verified: 6/18/2026, 10:41:14 AM

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